Junaid Ali created VCL-867:
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Summary: Active Directory Authentication for Windows VM's
Key: VCL-867
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-867
Project: VCL
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: database, vcld (backend), web gui (frontend)
Affects Versions: 2.3.2
Reporter: Junaid Ali
The current VCL application creates local user accounts for each reservation.
There is a need to provide active directory authentication so as to provide
access to domain resources like profile and network shares during the VCL
reservation.
This patch updates the VCL database by creating two additional tables:
activedirectorydomain -> used to store active directory related information
imageactivedirectorydomain -> used to store mapping of which images use which
active directory domain.
A new column is added to the reservation table to hold current active directory
information for that particular reservation.
The patch updates the VCL backed (vcld) to add functionality to make the
windows images part of the active directory domain. It also sets the computer's
hostname to be the same as defined in the database. This is done to prevent
creation of a lot of temporary computer objects within Active Directory. The
process of domain join add's two reboots (one for hostname update and one for
domain join). After each reboot the cygwin_rebase scripts are run to
reconfigure SSHD.
The patch also updates the VCL frontend to allow management of Active directory
domains within the system and also manage the association of VCL images and
active directory domains. There is an option to enable moving computer objects
to specific Active directory Organization Unit's for better grouping and
ability to apply custom policies to custom group of images on the Active
directory side. This option was working in Cygwin 1.5 but stopped working in
Cygwin 1.7 due to some path issues. I left this option in the front-end while I
look for resolution within Cygwin 1.7.
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